Nagoya JALT:

DIY NeuroELT: Seven keys for making your textbook more brain-friendly

Date: Saturday, October 21st, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Speaker: Marc Helgesen

Description:
Whoever wrote your textbook was thinking about grammar and vocabulary, perhaps tasks and motivation - and was probably not focused on brain science. But the brain is where learning occurs. As MBE (Mind/Brain/Education) pioneer famously said, "Designing curriculum without knowing about the brain is like designing a glove without knowing about the hand." This session will introduce seven (7) quick and easy ways to make your textbook (yes, even Monkasho-approved books!) more appropriate for brain-compatible learning. We'll specifically look at modifying textbooks tasks to make them better. They are:

Go for emotion!

Give learners choices

The brain needs novelty

Teach across the senses

Learners need a challenge

Let learners create

Personalize

Practical examples, plus the science behind each idea will be presented. Teachers are encouraged to bring along a textbook they are teaching. In the workshop sections of the session, you'll be encouraged to think about how you can modify it. See Marc's webpages for more on this topic.

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.